Ozinga Field is a

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field located in

Crestwood, Illinois Crestwood is a village about 24 miles southwest of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 10,826. The Windy City ThunderBolts of the independent baseball Frontier League play at Ozinga Field in ...

. The stadium was built in 1999 and holds 3,200 people. It is the home field of the 2007 and 2008

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champions, the

Windy City ThunderBolts The Windy City ThunderBolts are a professional baseball team based in the Chicago suburb of Crestwood, Illinois, in the United States. The ThunderBolts are a member of the Frontier League, which is a partner league of Major League Baseball. Sinc ...

Name

The park features one of the few minor league baseball stadium upper decks in the country. The park was built for the Cook County Cheetahs. However, new ownership changed the name of the team into the current Windy City ThunderBolts.

Renovations

The name change brought renovations to the ballpark between 2004 and 2006 including a new fan deck on the first base side, a

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, a new kids zone down the left field line, and a new ticket office also down the left field line. The ballpark was originally called Hawkinson Ford Field until the 2007 season when the park's name was modified to Hawk Ford Field. Another name change occurred during the 2007 season on August 13, when the naming rights were sold to Standard Bank. A new scoreboard/videoboard system was added toward the end of the 2014 season and in 2015 the old grass playing surface was removed and a new synthetic turf field with new drainage system was installed. The renovations make the facility a multi-sport & concert arena available 10 months a year. On February 20, 2019, the ThunderBolts and the village of Crestwood issued a statement announcing the name change to Ozinga Fiel

References

External links

Standard Bank Stadium on Facebook

Windy City Thunderbolts
Minor league baseball venues Baseball venues in Illinois Frontier League ballparks 1999 establishments in Illinois Sports venues completed in 1999 {{Illinois-baseball-venue-stub